Blake Griffin: Mavericks should not trade No. 1 pick, take Cooper Flagg

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14-05-2025

Blake Griffin: Mavericks should not trade No. 1 pick, take Cooper Flagg
Yahoo Sports senior NBA reporter Vincent Goodwill spoke to former No. 1 overall pick and six-time All-Star Blake Griffin about Dallas winning the NBA draft lottery and whether the team should select the Duke forward. Blake joined Yahoo Sports on behalf of Wayfair.
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Today, we are joined by Blake Griffin on behalf of Wayfair.com.
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Blake, Cooper Flack, he's walking in to replace theoretically, if they keep the pick and they pick him and everything else, he's going in to replace the first guy that they thought or the second guy behind Dirk, that they thought was going to be staying there forever.
Like that's a different level of pressure that I would say that could be the case for Cooper Flag, right?
Yeah, I mean, I, I, I, I saw somebody talking about like should the Mavs move the pair I I I think that's a terrible idea, but to be fair, I also thought moving Luca for that was also a bad idea, so why would you, I don't think you trade that pick at all.
Yeah, I think Cooper is gonna be like impactful right away.
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Adding Cooper flag to Anthony Davis to Clay, to Kyrie when he come when he's when he's healthy, uh, like that team is that team is good.
Yeah.
That's a very, very good team.
I know, I know Nico was watching that lottery, like, come on, I need I need this so bad.
I wonder what I wonder what the Dallas fans are like thinking right now.
Like, are they, do you think they ease up off of him a little bit?
Absolutely not.
They're afraid he's going to trade that pick to the Lakers for Austin Reeves.
Yes, that's what they think.
And a bag of beans or something like that.
They are afraid that Nico is getting is getting worked right now by Rob Polinka on the phone and they're meeting up at some coffee house.
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That's so good.
You need another washing machine.
That's, no, I hope not.
Let's just say that for Nico's sake, he better do the right thing.
Yeah.
Now, Blake, of course, you're here with us on behalf of Wayfair.
You're wearing purple.
I know the color, I know the app.
Tell us about your partnership with Wayfair.
I've seen you in a couple of those commercials.
Yeah, um, I did a, did a campaign called Charades, uh, where people get the opportunity to act out their favorite chair.
And there's, by the way, there's 200,000 of them on Wayfair.
It's really cool.
I mean, I, I enjoyed this collaboration a lot just because, like I said, there are so many choices.
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There's a style for everybody.
Charades will be a a a contest, so people can like act out their favorite chairs for a chance to win $1000 to Wayfair.
And like I said, with all those options, you can you can get pretty much anything you need.
Blake, man, really this is really, really fun, man.
I really appreciate you.
Thanks again, Blake.
Thanks for having me, appreciate it.